>Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Good idea - I've been reviewing the position while preparing PATCH http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30235 and believe we need to come up with a core fetures list with code examples. Then I would hope that HWPF could emerge from scratchpad and get more users and hopefully developers.
I am keen to see Ryan's article that he refers to in his post http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08390.html >... An article that Avik and I wrote will be appearing in the August >issue of Java Developer's Journal and it covers the capabilities >of the existing codebase of HWPF in CVS. ... >From this I think we should gather some opinion as to the "must have's" and then work from there. Comments welcome! Best regards all, Piers -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2004 17:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Leaving POI Excellent. Lets start putting a game plan together for HWPF. Where to best focus the development effort. -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? The views expressed in this email are those of the author and are almost definitely not shared by the Apache Software Foundation, its board or its general membership. In fact they probably most definitively disagree with everything espoused in the above email. > From: "Koundinya \(Sudhakar Chavali\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "POI Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 20:34:21 -0700 (PDT) > To: POI Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Leaving POI > > Congratulations Ryan, > > You have done a great work for this open source API, > > Regards > Sudhakar > > Oliver, > > Although I do not have any experience in developing open source APIs, I would > like to join your > team for contributing my work for the open sources. Since four months as I am > in working with > different document parser API, I think I can understand the work of existing > POI in short period. > > > > Thanks > sudhakar > > > > > --- Piers Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ryan - well done for all your work which has been invaluable >> in the development of the Office integration work I did for >> Goss Interactive. Best of luck with your new job! >> >> Andy - I have done some work with Ryan (and am currently >> rolling our latest fixes/updates into a patch). >> >>> unless someone steps up to the plate (volunteers)... >> >> Please consider me a prospective volunteer - I am currently >> reviewing the HWPF code to see what state of play is. >> >> Best regards, >> Piers >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 19 July 2004 14:07 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Leaving POI >> >> >> Congratulations on your new job. I would have liked to have found a way to >> bring you on working on POI full-time, but the difficulty of the BSD license >> with regards to commercial open source really got in our way. Losing you is >> a real loss to POI. If I had it to do over again, POI would have been LGPL >> or even GPL. >> >> As you said, please do not answer questions on this list. Please do not >> contribute any code or patches. It is important that the project remain >> unencumbered by any legal agreements you may be bound to. >> >> I'll always appreciate the work you did and am glad to have known you. >> >> -Andy >> >> PS. The severe loss to POI cannot be understated and unless someone steps >> up to the plate (volunteers) it will fall into disrepair. Is anyone up to >> the task? We can train you on the finer art of bit-tweaking. >> -- >> Andrew C. Oliver >> http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp >> Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI >> >> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi >> For Java and Excel, Got POI? >> >> >> --- >> >> >> >> >> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >> Version: 6.0.716 / Virus Database: 472 - Release Date: 05/07/2004 >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > ===== > "No one can earn a million dollars honestly."- William Jennings Bryan > (1860-1925) > > "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."- Albert Einstein > (1879-1955) > > "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."- George Bernard > Shaw (1856-1950) > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! > http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. 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